I made it

I officially landed in Tamale on Wednesday morning and I am excited to finally make contact. The first few days in Accra were okay, but now that I have found my temporary home in Tamale, I am having a great time.
-First I want to thank everyone who supported me and helped me to get here. It could not have happened without you and I will do my best to keep everyone up on what's going on.

-I cannot express how welcoming and friendly everyone here has been. As I am learning and getting used to the culture that I have stepped into, they are being very patient and humorous with me. I hope that I can somehow repay them for the hospitality.

-I have spent the time so far doing some work in the Sister Cities of Tamale office and also making arrangements for other things that I'll be doing here. Goals here are to work on some accounting and also clean up the computer. This evening I'll be introduced to some local musicians and beginning my lessons in traditional music. The Lun-naa is serving as my guide and instructor.

-Last night Rashid discovered that I had a camera. We took some pictures including this one of myself, Titi, and Rashid.



There will be more.

-I had my first taste of local "Dagbane" food yesterday when Nash, the blacksmith and Lun-naa brought some tuubani to the palace. It is steamed bite-sized balls of bean flour, cassava flour, oil and spices. It was very good and they were very excited for me that I was started to really experience their culture and begin to know what it is like to be from the Dagbon region.

-The first day I arrived I showed off my horn (mainly because no one knew what could possibly be in that oddly shaped case). They were intrigued by it and I was equally amazed that I could pop out the notes that I did on zero warm up time. There will be more time for that.

-One last thing; from my room I can hear the kids of a nearby school singing during the day. It is a goal of mine to go to visit them and see if I can learn something.